SoFurry back online after six months downtime
Posted by Sonious (Tantroo McNally) on Sun 11 Jan 2026 - 12:37 — Edited as of Mon 12 Jan 2026 - 08:12
On January 10th SoFurry released a post indicating that they are back online for the first time since early July of 2025. During this downtime they had moved servers and finalized updating so that the new Beta version will now fully replace the original style of the site. The beta will remain in place until bugs are fleshed out with the public transition.
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Sonious (Tantroo McNally) — read stories — contact (login required)a project coordinator and Kangaroo from CheektRoowaga, NY, interested in video games, current events, politics, writing and finance
Furry since 2001.
Flayrah contributor since 2010.
Flayrah editor since 2017.
Runner of Non-Fiction furry YouTube channel "World in Rooview" started in 2017.
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I'm very happy to see it finally back. But I was never a fan of the new site design. With it still being in beta, it's hard to know what is final and what will still change. I've come up with about 16 tickets I need to submit to them now. Many are suggestions but a few are bugs or missing options that would be easy to add.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
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Rakuen's first suggestion: stop nannying us by restricting cp
6 months is a bit of an excessive amount of time needed to move servers and upgrade. I reckon something else might have contributed to the downtime.
I hope there was no hardware failure or security faults somewhere in there that caused the website to stay offline for so long.
From what has been said it seems to be the fact that those running and responsible for the up time of the furry fan site are "over-employed" so they don't have much free time to work to resolve surprise issues. People offered money, but it wasn't a money issue.
Given the 50+ hours I have to dedicate to my own job, it can be quite a lift. People with skills to run a site like these are usually valuable to their employers, and as such it can be hard to really push things through with the fleeting spare time they have.
Shifting things so that the beta site could be handled by all users also probably needed to be handled, and was forced here.
The site is crap for what it is it. People mainly care about the 20 years of content rather then the new site. Missing key features and a UI that isn't fit for the job doomed the SFX to fail just like SF 1. If it wasn't for the historical content SFX wouldn't be getting a second look now.
The staff were told for years SF next and SFX was disliked and just ignored all negative feedback like they always do when they mess up and even removing comments they don't agree with. Toumal is worse than Dragoneer ever was. If Toumal really cared he would've kept the new site closer in design to SF 2 then fixed the core problems of Sofurry which is the useless staff and trolls that stalk the site. Toumal has done the same thing he did in the past and listened only to the "yes" men.
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